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**Motivation**: (shameless copied from Giovanni's one because I feel exactly the same) Help keep up the good things going! Personally I think that the actual PSC did an amazing job and I would have re-elected it entirely. I accepted with enthusiasm when I was asked I was available to eventually fill this hole.
**Unauthorized campaign advertising**: do not vote for me! Giovanni is your man :)
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**Candidate name:** Kurt Menke
**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** I’m a consultant, QGIS certified educator and author based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. For the last 10 years I have operated my own small (me) GIS consultancy, Bird’s Eye View (http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/). I primarily work for non-profits on ecological conservation and public health issues. I have been doing GIS for 20 years and was an early QGIS and FOSS4G adopter. I began using MapServer, GRASS and PostGIS for web apps in the early 2000’s. I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore’. I co-authored the GeoAcademy curriculum and then published it as Discover QGIS. Prior to that I co-authored Mastering QGIS and am currently working on the 3rd edition. I am an Osgeo Charter Member, a GeoForAll lab and GeoAmbassador. I am a member of the recently revived QGIS-US user group. I have also been involved with QGIS Certifications, helping approve QGIS organizations.
**Motivation:**I love the QGIS community and have been looking for more ways to contribute and be of service. I also feel the outgoing PSC did an incredible job. For me it was a great honor just to be nominated. I hope that the fact that I am not a developer, rather a power user and educator/trainer, means I might bring a different viewpoint to the PSC. That of a small business offering QGIS services but not directly working on QGIS. Since I’m a North American (I’d rather not be considered an American at the moment) I would also represent a different part of the world.
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